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Endless Nights: A macabre evening with Mason Alexander Park
Mason Alexander Park – the breakout star of the new Netflix series The Sandman and the Quantum Leap – has announced an intimate “Endless Nights” concert series.
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Popeye Variations: Not Yer Pappy’s Comics an’ Art Book
Over 100 pages of Popeye art and comic strips, including new art, new comic strips, and art by Bud Sagendorf from the original 40s & 50s Popeye comic
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Deep Purple’s Gillan & Glover unsung songwriting duo of all time
Did you know that Ian Gillan and Roger Glover have been together since 1965? Gillan claims that he and Roger have written many 250 songs together.
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I Exaggerate: My Brushes with Fame by Kevin Nealon
Beloved Saturday Night Live alum Kevin Nealon shares original full-color caricatures and insightful personal essays about his famous friends.
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Bono announces a 14-date book tour to support of memoir Surrender
Bono will embark on a fall book tour supporting his upcoming autobiography, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The book will be released on November 1.
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Quote: The Verdict
Paul Newman's closing argument in the Verdict still rings true today. I cheered at the end! Paul Newman still had gas in the tank in his twilight years.
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Mr. Doodle covers every square inch of his mansion with doodles
Sam Cox has balls! Also known as Mr. Doodles covered every square inch of his U.K. 12-room Kent $1.54 million mansion with doodles.
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Go green for this Halloween
Instead of scaring the trashman this year, give him less trash as a treat. Be a bit more creative with your costumes. Go green for Halloween.
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NYPL and Marvel to issue special edition Spider-Man library card
Knowledge is power! Scale new heights with NYPL's special, limited-edition Spider-Man library card, available in branches starting October 11.
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Monster Mash was once banned in the U.K. for 11 years
Sixty years ago in the U.K. in 1962, Monster Mash was banned for 11 years by the BBC for being “too morbid.” It climbed to the top of
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Cliffhanger! Cinematic Superheroes of the Serials: 1941-1952
Cliffhanger! by Christopher Irving from Twomorrows touches on the early days of the film serial, to its explosion as a juvenile medium of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)